Gerry Nelson
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As winner of last weeks 'All Blues' challenge I present to you this weeks challenge - the loud tie challenge.
All you have to do is to wear a loud tie tastefully - can it be done? Yes? Show us how!
The definition of 'loud' is up to you but it's at the opposite end of the spectrum from soporific.
Rules -
1) Challenge is open to fits from this week only from now until midnight AEST Saturday 6th September (Australian time)
2) Outfits must fit the basic premise of a MC fit i.e shirt, tie, suit/sc, trousers and proper shoes/boots. PS's are optional.
3) The tie must be loud (D'Uh!
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4) The rest of your fit may be as loud (or not) as you want - just remember to keep it tasteful
5) One entry per person - if you submit more than one entry, you must nominate one as your final submission
Edit: Corrected the closing date.
I couldn't find a way to add a poll to this post so I've created a separate thread. Please vote at http://www.styleforum.net/t/417294/poll-friday-challenge-5th-september-2014-loud-ties-worn-well/0_30
The Candidates:
All you have to do is to wear a loud tie tastefully - can it be done? Yes? Show us how!
The definition of 'loud' is up to you but it's at the opposite end of the spectrum from soporific.
Rules -
1) Challenge is open to fits from this week only from now until midnight AEST Saturday 6th September (Australian time)
2) Outfits must fit the basic premise of a MC fit i.e shirt, tie, suit/sc, trousers and proper shoes/boots. PS's are optional.
3) The tie must be loud (D'Uh!
4) The rest of your fit may be as loud (or not) as you want - just remember to keep it tasteful
5) One entry per person - if you submit more than one entry, you must nominate one as your final submission
Edit: Corrected the closing date.
I couldn't find a way to add a poll to this post so I've created a separate thread. Please vote at http://www.styleforum.net/t/417294/poll-friday-challenge-5th-september-2014-loud-ties-worn-well/0_30
The Candidates:
This is actually what I'm wearing today. I think it's also my entry. It's definitely of the first kind of the two kinds of (hopefully) successful approaches to bold ties that I outlined earlier. There are two other ties of, um, historical interest, which I might put on and post later and then decide. But for now, and since no-one has gone Post-Imperial yet...
Deets: Cad & The Dandy bespoke blazer suit in Minnis fresco (I think 520, but I can't actually remember -it's somewhere between a true navy and RAF blue), Club Monaco (yes, you read that right) navy bengal stripe shirt , Post-Imperial cotton tie, wimple white cotton hank (+ unseen black Crockett & Jones Hallams and burgundy Mazarin socks).
Cheers. Enter the the big pink Paisley.
And loud socks as well:
OK, yesterday I voiced my concerns regarding certain barely-reconcilable conditions of this challenge, and intimated that I might need to re-think my own entry.
I have now done so. Different tie; more attention paid to colour matching; further offsetting the tie's loudness by incorporating other points of visual interest; and attempting better overall cohesion, within the paradigm of a somewhat dignified dandyism.
Whether the result is an improvement on my previous effort is anybody's guess, but I present it anyway. This is now my official entry.
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